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Updated: September 20, 2025
Look at the duc de Choiseul, who has kept a regular court at Chanteloup, and never wanted for a train of courtiers at it." After this lesson of worldly wisdom, the excellent marechale gave me a friendly kiss, returned to her carriage, and I saw her no more during my stay at Ruel. The evening brought with it a second letter from the duc d'Aiguillon, it was as follows:
Meanwhile, the general interest expressed for the duc de Choiseul greatly irritated the king. "Who would have thought," said he to me, "that a disgraced minister could have been so idolized by a whole court? Would you believe that I receive a hundred petitions a day for leave to visit at Chanteloup? This is something new indeed! I cannot understand it."
M. de Choiseul then retired to summon his sister, to communicate to her and his wife the misfortune which had befallen him: he then set out for Paris, to make the necessary preparations for removing to Chanteloup. There an officer from the king, charged to accompany him to his place of exile, gave him his majesty's orders that he should see no person, and receive no visits.
You can, therefore, tell me whether it is true that he has left Chantoloup, wither the deceased king had banished him." "Yes, sire, the Duke de Choiseul arrived this morning in Paris." "What can he want in Paris?" asked the king, with an unconscious look. "Why did he leave Chanteloup?
"Then why not follow so excellent an example, sire?" replied I; " and since your Choiseul is weary of Chanteloup, why not command him upon some political errand to the court of Madrid." "Heaven preserve me from such a thing," exclaimed Louis XV. "Such a man as he is ought never to quit the kingdom, and I have been guilty of considerable oversight to leave him the liberty of so doing.
Austria cannot indulge such vain hopes, for her watchful spies must ere this have convinced the Hapsburgs that my dislike toward this duke, so precious in the eyes of Maria Theresa, is unconquerable. My father's shade banished him to Chanteloup, and I will follow this shade whithersoever it leads.
She had so much faith in the hopes with which d'Aubigny inspired her, and by which that cunning favourite thought perhaps already to profit, that she instructed him to go into Touraine and to purchase land in the neighbourhood of Amboise whereon to erect a chateau, which should be called the manor of Chanteloup.
His estate, Briess, near Berlin, is no Chanteloup, but a model to those patriots who would study economy. Here he, every Wednesday, enjoys recreation. The services he renders the kingdom cost it only five thousand rix-dollars yearly; he, therefore, lives without ostentation, yet becoming his state, and with splendour when splendour is necessary.
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